Dialogue

 1 Menex|         a noble thing. The dead man gets a fine and costly funeral,
 2 Menex|         made over him by a wise man who has long ago prepared
 3 Menex|    greater and nobler and finer man than I was before. And if,
 4 Menex|     there is no difficulty in a man’s winning applause when
 5 Menex|      rhetoric. No wonder that a man who has received such an
 6 Menex|      selected and brought forth man, who is superior to the
 7 Menex|      and noblest sustenance for man, whom she regarded as her
 8 Menex|    government is the nurture of man, and the government of good
 9 Menex| deserving of them. Neither is a man rejected from weakness or
10 Menex|        forgotten, and let every man remind their descendants
11 Menex| dwelling in a base and cowardly man, appear comely, but the
12 Menex|    ancestors, knowing that to a man who has any self-respect,
13 Menex|         have attained. A mortal man cannot expect to have everything
14 Menex|      end which is vouchsafed to man, and should be glorified
15 Menex|       when they have arrived at man’s estate she sends them